On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 07:47:57PM -0700, Timothy L. Bolz wrote:
>
> Ok this is for Cory and others who use laptops.
> Could you plug a monitor into your laptop and have a different screen than
> what on the laptop? I guess it would be like dual monitors. If it can be
> different can windows do this? I don't know that much about laptops just
> that you can plug a monitor, keyboard and mouse and use it like a desktop.
> ~
> Tim
>
>
As my laptop screen is broken, I use a monitor plugged into my laptop.
I had to set up X to work with the monitor instead of the LCD.
The BIOS is supposed to detect if a monitor is attached, and use the
monitor only, but sometimes both come on (ooh... pretty pinks and neon
orange and green streaked across dmesg...). It is also possible to set
the BIOS to use both the screen and monitor. I'm pretty sure both get
their input from the same video device though.
There is kernel support for dual headed video cards, which would
probably be easier than using 2 video cards.
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